Plan local outings and follow event feeds

Choose a planner

1. Open Events at /events.
2. Select This weekend planner, Kids & family planner, Free events planner or Business networking planner above the calendar's event collections. The homepage also has This weekend and Business connections links.
3. Read the introduction, then select See upcoming events to jump to the listings, Build your plan for the checklist or Follow event updates for the RSS section.
4. Use the four collection links below the introduction to switch planners.

These public pages require no account or payment. There are no saved settings. The collection is selected by its URL. Bookmark or share that URL to return to the same kind of plan.

Understand the dates and labels

• This weekend: Friday through Sunday in Central time. Saturday and Sunday stay on the current weekend; Monday moves to the next Friday. The actual date range appears above the cards.
• Kids & family: upcoming events in the next month tagged kids, teens or family. Check each organizer's exact ages and supervision rules.
• Free events: upcoming events in the next month explicitly marked free, with no conflicting positive minimum or maximum price. Unknown admission is excluded from this collection.
• Business networking: upcoming events in the next month with explicit business wording, a reviewed business-program title or an industry category. General community events remain in the full calendar.

Cards show up to 24 event series, ordered by start date. The weekend selection first makes room for up to eight series beginning on each day, then fills remaining spaces with the earliest available series. Events beginning before Friday count toward Friday's selection. Other planners show the earliest 24 series. Repeated occurrences with the same title and venue are grouped; Also... shows additional dates. Events spanning multiple dates show their recorded start and end dates. Only published events satisfying the calendar's upcoming rules appear. Listings already underway can remain while their known duration or the calendar's time allowance permits.

See organizer for time means the source provides a date without a reliable start time. Check organizer for admission means the price is unknown. A calendar source-check timestamp records the latest sync completion, not a personal verification of every card. If some sources need a fresh check, confirm details directly with the organizer.

Turn an event into a day out

1. Select an event's title or Details & organizer.
2. Read the full event and open its available organizer, source or ticket link to confirm time, address, admission, registration and accessibility. Booking and payment are handled by the organizer.
3. Return to the planner and read the three Build your plan steps.
4. Use More ways to plan your visit for related activities and resources.
5. Under Add a local meal to your day, choose a city. Open a business profile and use its available website or contact details to confirm hours, menus and reservations. Check the actual distance between the restaurant and event.

For more results or filters, select Open full calendar & filters. It opens with the planner's time, audience, price or business filter applied. Other filters start at their calendar defaults. You can combine filters there; for example, keep Kids & Family under Audience and choose Free under Price. Planner pages themselves have no city or date settings.

Follow a collection with RSS

1. Scroll to Follow this event collection.
2. Select Open RSS feed. Your browser may show XML text or download a file; that is the feed's normal machine-readable format.
3. Copy the feed URL from the browser address bar. Alternatively, use your browser's copy-link action on Open RSS feed.
4. In your own RSS app, use its add-feed or subscribe control and paste the URL. RSS apps have different controls and refresh schedules.

The four addresses are:

• /events/feed/this-weekend
• /events/feed/kids
• /events/feed/free
• /events/feed/networking

Feeds contain the same selection of up to 24 event series and short public facts, with links to directory event details. They refresh from published records when requested, with up to five minutes of web caching. Your reader may wait longer between requests. Some readers keep old items in their history even after the event leaves the feed; open the event and organizer for current status. RSS is separate from Add to Calendar on an individual event: RSS follows a collection; calendar download adds that single event to your calendar.

No email or SMS subscription is created by opening a feed. To remove the collection, unsubscribe from it in your RSS app.

Use a feed in a local publication

Use the short event facts provided by the feed and retain useful links to the detail page and organizer. Confirm details before promoting an event. The feed does not grant rights to third-party photography, logos or full event descriptions. It includes no submitter contact details. A feed-link click records interest in the feed, not a confirmed subscription or attendance.

Resolve a problem

• No events in the collection: use Open full calendar & filters for other dates or read the planning options below the list. Empty collections do not mean the entire region has no events.
• An event changed: open its organizer or source link for current details. Existing source checks update published listings; you can also use the site's contact route to report an issue.
• The feed is temporarily unavailable: retry shortly. The feed returns an error instead of presenting a failed database read as an empty calendar.
• The feed address is not found: use one of the four exact addresses above, or copy the link from the planner again.
• A feed reader shows an old event: refresh the feed and inspect the event's detail page. Your reader may retain historical items.
• You want to add an event: select Submit a local event, complete the submission form and send it for review. Publication follows moderation; submission does not guarantee a particular review time.